Tiffany Donovan vs. the Poison Werewolves

By Tyler Champion and Justina Ireland

Tiffany Donovan and her friends in the Loyal Order of Helga go to the aid of the Beaver Falls chapter to help with a monstrous invasion. But the other chapter of the Loyal Order doesn't appreciate their assistance. While the two chapters remain at odds, the pets in Beaver Falls are turning rabid. Tiffany must figure out how to get everyone to work together before all the dogs in Beaver Falls turn into monsters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: May 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781515887201

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

The Loyal Order of Helga

Chapter One: Getting It Together

Chapter Two: The Loyal Order of Helga Rides Again

Chapter Three: Pony Pepper Party

Chapter Four: Another Town Full of Monsters?

Chapter Five: Travel by Map

Chapter Six: The Loyal Order of Velma

Chapter Seven: A Mean Green Puppy

Chapter Eight: Were-what?!

Chapter Nine: Disagreement Disaster

Chapter Ten: A Calamine Catastrophe

Chapter Eleven: An Unlikely Sight

Mr. Hofstrom’s Notebook

Glossary

You Should Talk

Write On

About the Author

About the Illustrator

Copyright

Back Cover

THE LOYAL ORDER OF HELGA

Long, long ago, in a village called New Svalbard, the people who lived there faced unimaginable dangers. A sinkhole as old as time held a door — a portal — to the Otherside, a dark and dreadful place filled with literal nightmares.

To warn travelers of the danger the village posed, the people renamed it Devils’ Pass — a reminder to all who lived there and passed through that a darkness sat in the area. A darkness that often had teeth.

For years the people of Devils’ Pass endured the danger. Then Helga, one of the white settlers of the village, fell through the cursed sinkhole to the Otherside, coming face-to-face with the terrifying monsters. Helga spent many years there, fighting all sorts of monstrous creatures, learning about their ways and their weaknesses. Through trials and tribulations, and more than a little cunning, she became a fearsome warrior.

Helga fought her way back to Devils’ Pass through the portal, now with an understanding of the deadly secrets of the Otherside. Almost immediately, her skills were put to the test. A fearsome frost giant menaced the village, crawling out of the sinkhole and terrorizing the people. Using only a flaming torch, Helga fought the giant and won. It was an astonishing act of bravery — but soon it was clear that the people of Devils’ Pass suffered from something else. The sinkhole made the people of the village forget that monsters lived there.

Through some type of magic, however, not all of them forgot. Those who remembered the perils and nightmares the sinkhole brought forth became the Loyal Order of Helga. Along with Helga, the people who remembered the danger vowed to protect Devils’ Pass — and the entire world — from the vicious monsters of the Otherside.

CHAPTER ONE

Getting It Together

Tiffany Donovan did not like group projects. It wasn’t that she couldn’t work as part of a team. She worked just fine with the Loyal Order of Helga, a team of kids who fought to keep the town of Devils’ Pass safe from the monsters that came from the Otherside. And they had a hard job since a sinkhole in the middle of the local park contained a portal. The portal worked like an expressway for monsters from the Otherside right into the lucky town of Devils’ Pass. But what Tiffany disliked was the bickering that always seemed to be part of a group working together. Tiffany had seen it with her field hockey team at the beginning of each season, and she had even seen it on student council, where she was the eighth-grade president. Every group project started with a whole bunch of arguing.

I really think we should do something with water. We can get some fish and some seaweed, maybe a few snails, and there you go. Instant ecosystem, said Brent Weeks. Tiffany liked Brent OK. He was a pale-skinned kid with a shock of red hair who talked about video games most of the time. But today he was being unusually forceful and was the main cause of the disagreement in their science project group.

What are the fish going to eat, Brent? Each other? said Mary Sue Hague, her cheeks growing an angry red. We would need a huge tank to put in enough algae for them to eat. We should just do a terrarium with a few plants and crickets and be done with it. A mini-forest. Mary Sue was not a fan of this project, as she had told everyone, because she thought it seemed too much like animal cruelty. Tiffany tried not to roll her eyes. She liked Mary Sue most of the time as well, but today, she was also being difficult.

The other two members of the group, Al Branch and Beth Wells, sat over to the side and watched Mary Sue and Brent fight. Both Al and Beth had stated very early on that they didn’t care what the project was, as long as they each got an A.

Tiffany sighed, leaning back in her chair and stretching her long legs. Today she’d worn her favorite shirt, a T-shirt with a quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the famous astrophysicist. But